Dobbins Middle School - 8th Grade Math

Welcome to my 8th grade math blog.


It will serve as my primary means of keeping you informed about your child's math class. I encourage you to visit often to stay abreast as we move through the 8th grade Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS).



Monday, August 12, 2013

Week at a Glance: August 12, 2013

Current Unit: Unit 1a Geometric Transformations
Unit Standards:  MCC8.G1, MCC8.G2, MCC8.G3

Crosswalk COACH Connection: Lesson 24
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This week in math, we will continue to study Geometric Transformations. We will focus on translations on Monday and Tuesday. Students will continue to explore translations and learn how to write and interpret translations in general form (algebraic) from a graph or a set of ordered pairs.

Monday:
 -- Translations Exploration (continue from Friday)
 -- Writing / Reading translations in general form

*HW - Translations Practice worksheet

Tuesday:
 -- Translations matching (group activity)
 *HW - Coordinating Translations Task

Wednesday:
 -- Translations Quiz

Thursday:
 -- Review Translations Quiz
 -- Rotations Exploration
*HW: Rotations Practice worksheet

Friday:
Coordinating Rotations Task

To be successful in this unit, it is important that students know the terms. They need to study them on a nightly basis until they have mastered all of them. Other prerequisite skills include: understanding the coordinate plane, plotting and reading points on a coordinate graph and integer operations.

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Advanced Math
The advanced math students are moving at a faster pace. As such, they finished exploring translations on Friday and will begin this week with rotations and move into reflections. The weekly outline is as follows:

Monday:
 -- Rotations Explorations Task
*HW - Rotations Practice worksheet

Tuesday:
 -- Rotations Exploration Task 2
    (Rotating about a fixed point other than the origin / Rotating in 45 degree increments).

Wednesday:
 -- Reflections Exploration Task
*HW - Reflecions Practice worksheet

Thursday:
 -- Reflections Explorations Task - 2
    (Reflecting over y = x)

Friday:
 -- Rigid Transformations Review Activity